Engineering Degree Online|Group Helps Needy, Motivates New Engineers

Posted by bposton on November 2nd, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Let’s talk about volunteering.

Yeah, I know. When you think of volunteering, you probably think of canned food drives, nursing homes and home building.

But there’s a group of techies out there called Engineers Without Borders-USA and they’re pushing volunteering to a new heights.

They’re working on projects like improving drinking water and building irrigation systems
for crops, Engineers Without Borders-USA has student chapters based at universities
across the United States, and their mission is to implement engineering solutions and inspire new engineers in the process.

One group of students from the University of Colorado is designing and building a water
system for a village in Rwanda. Another group of students from the Colorado School of Mines worked alongside the villagers of San Pablo, Belize, to install solar panels and electrical wiring in a school, a church and other community buildings.

These guys and gals have coordinated humanitarian projects all over the world,
including Thailand, Mali, Senegal, Peru and Afghanistan.

ASME, which provided partial funding for the Belize project, has teamed up with
Engineers Without Borders to promote the involvement of ASME members and student members in future overseas projects.

So give this a thought and look this group up at your school.

Ben

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engineering degree online : fake diplomas - it’s a crime

Posted by bposton on October 28th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I’ve been talking alot about fake or phoney diplomas, and degree mills.

Sorry for staying up on this soap box, but I really wanted you to understand that they are bad, bad, bad.

Actually, they’re against the law - in some states. One of those is Oregon, a state that cracks down on diploma mills all the time.

Alan Contreras works on this for the State of Oregon. Here’s a comment he made:

“You don’t want somebody with a fake degree working in Homeland Security. You don’t want somebody with a fake degree teaching your children or designing your bridges.”

I’d agree. But here’s the sad news - it’s a reported fact that investigations have found employees with diploma mill degrees at the Transportation Security Administration, the Defense Intelligence Agency and at the Departments of Treasury and Education.

A while back there was a report that one individual -  who sat on an advisory committee for the Department of Education - had two degrees from two diploma mills including Kensington University.

Kensington was forced out of business by officials in California and Hawaii.

There was also another person - A Florida State representative, who was also on the National Commission on Presidential Scholars that was another Kensington alum.

Both these people say that they worked very hard for their degree and thought it was legitimate.

What irks me is that taxpayers have probably paid for the bogus degrees of these and many other government employees. 

Just my final warning - check out the program very carefully.

OK, I’ll get off my soap box now - a least for awhile :-)  

Ben

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